As the album's title suggests, this is the third one from the Australia-born but London-based Penelope Trappes. Four years after her debut with, of course, Penelope One, Penelope Three is here to enchant the audience with her unique approach to dreamy sounds.
Her music is the missing link between electronic pop and ambient pop - the clear but airy vocals sound over r'n'b-like bass lines that are put through experimental mindset of the artist so they sound familiar but also difficult to quite place them anywhere. There's a lot of blank spaces there, very subtle, ambient sounds all over the compositions and quite chaotic vibes - chaotic in an extremely peaceful and chill way if it's even possible. Just listen to Nervous to understand what I mean. Another thing is the ethereal charge within this music - a lot of backing voices of the subtlest nature, hazy synths and electronic sounds in the backgrounds and, finally, the ghostly vocals that are more warm than fun, more melancholy than energy.
This can evolve into slowcore trip-hop in Red Yellow with its clearer electronic sounds and this kind of vocals I automatically associate with trip-hop. This is the way the artist composed her "album of healing, on which she looks to release herself from fear and into love" and one that is set to be the final part of the triptych of her albums. Reading ABOUT her works is almost as interesting as listening to the music so I highly recommend going to her Bandcamp page and do that on your own.
Penelope Three costs 7 GBP.
Check: Awkward Matriarch
Country: UK
Genre: ambient r'n'b
Label: Houndstooth
